On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Feces. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as excrement or excreta and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Feces in a sentence
Feces meaning
Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines; excrement.
Synonyms of Feces
Using Feces
- The main meaning on this page is: Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines; excrement.
- Useful related words include: fecal matter, excrement, excreta, excretion.
- In the example corpus, feces often appears in combinations such as: feces and, the feces, and feces.
Context around Feces
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Feces
- In this selection, "feces" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, human, own, cat, smell, coprophagous and infestation stand out and add context to how "feces" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the feces of other and and the feces smell wherever. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "feces" sits close to words such as addict, behavioural and bengali, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with feces
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It smelled like feces and urine. (6 words)
He also observed dried feces on the floors and walls. (10 words)
Gorillas and chimpanzees eat their own feces and the feces of other gorillas and chimpanzees. (15 words)
Monica Lewis-Patrick, president and CEO of the community organization We the People of Detroit, says that she knows of “elders still living in homes where they’ve never been able to clean up the feces and wastewater in their basements” from past flooding. (44 words)
Mr Williams said he also had known leopard feces and hair collected from a private zoo tested by one of the same labs, but that these samples came back with the same results of dog feces and domestic cat hair. (40 words)
During the year leading up to his death, the 6’2 Price ate his own feces and drank his own urine and acted in other ways that made clear he was spiraling and in grave need of mental health care. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
They dig in other people’s gardens and leave cat feces and the feces smell wherever they please.
A female fly feeding on feces Coprophagous insects consume and redigest the feces of large animals.
An unspecified or collective occurrence of feces is generally shit or some shit; a single deposit of feces is sometimes a shit or a piece of shit; and to defecate is to shit or to take a shit.
Gorillas and chimpanzees eat their own feces and the feces of other gorillas and chimpanzees.
Mr Williams said he also had known leopard feces and hair collected from a private zoo tested by one of the same labs, but that these samples came back with the same results of dog feces and domestic cat hair.
Some animal species eat feces as a normal behavior; other species may not normally consume feces but do so under very unusual conditions.
Whipworms eggs are passed in the feces of infected persons, and if an infected person defecates outside or if untreated human feces as used as fertilizer, eggs are deposited on soil where they can mature into an infective stage.
A foster parent rubbed feces in her face when she was a toddler and her adoptive father used a stun gun on her, according to the petition.
And I’d like to remind you that they’re firmly on the side of the people who two years to the day earlier were trying to hang the Vice President and were smearing human feces on the walls.
During the year leading up to his death, the 6’2 Price ate his own feces and drank his own urine and acted in other ways that made clear he was spiraling and in grave need of mental health care.
Giardia cysts (little sacs of immature parasite) spread disease and are passed out in feces, where they can remain viable in the environment for months before being consumed by someone else.
Granville Island, one of the main tourist attractions in Vancouver, is struggling with an unexpected goose feces infestation.
He also observed dried feces on the floors and walls.
Humans may acquire the virus after inhaling birds' respiratory droplets or exposure of their mucus membranes to bird feces, saliva or contaminated surfaces.
Imagine the sounds and odors awaiting them as they arrive at their final destination—the floor slippery with blood and feces, the air reeking of death.
It is highly infectious, and is spread from person to person either through fecal–oral transmission (e.g. poor hygiene, or by ingestion of food or water contaminated by human feces), or via the oral–oral route.
It might also include watching someone defecate, being watched while taking a dump or smearing feces on someone’s body.
It smelled like feces and urine.
Monica Lewis-Patrick, president and CEO of the community organization We the People of Detroit, says that she knows of “elders still living in homes where they’ve never been able to clean up the feces and wastewater in their basements” from past flooding.
Officers said that after arriving at her home on West Center Road they detected a strong urine and feces smell throughout.
Common combinations with feces
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- feces and 37×
- the feces 20×
- and feces 19×
- human feces 15×
- of feces 13×
- feces of 12×
- feces on 10×
- in feces 9×
- own feces 7×
- feces or 7×